Protest Forecast: Wednesday’s weather downturn and expected downpour will likely usher in the worst conditions experienced so far by the Occupy Wall Street Protesters camped out in Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park. And this won’t be the protesters’ last brush with bad weather. As Metropolis mentioned on Monday, organizers are planning to stay throughout the winter — though the number of people overnighting during blizzards will likely drop to “symbolic” levels.

Just as unseasonably warm weather over the weekend likely helped to boost turnout in the park, the three days of rain this week might very well reduce the protesters’ numbers. But skies should clear again for the weekend, as more typical fall weather sets in and takes highs back to the mid- to upper-60s.

Hurricane Watch: On the Pacific Coast of Mexico, Hurricane Jova is forecasted to make landfall Tuesday night near Puerto Vallarta. Jova is packing sustained winds of 100 mph and will become the strongest landfalling hurricane so far this season — outdoing Hurricane Irene’s peak landfall intensity of 85 mph. Still, the latest hurricane is much smaller in size than Irene was and damage is expected to be localized.